Originally Posted by FXDX

Although my memory is fuzzy over the years, I have to agree with mike on this one about the 757 instructor cadre. All of them could hold wide body pay and there would have been no harm to the rest of the seniority list had they been able to hold their wide body pay and slide over to the 757. DW and the rest were adamant about them having to bid down to the 757 and then wait to bid back up to the wide body. Congrats MEC, you just caused several guys to lose their passover pay for a couple of years so you could protect seniority for everyone else who had no interest in bidding those instructor positions. Well done.

The current MEC did the same to the backseat flexes who were right seat qual'd in the 72 but hadn't actually bid the right seat. Tch tch. So they were already well senior enough to hold widebody passover pay and were doing so. Who is being hurt if they do makeup in the right seat or fly right seat on their fly months? Nobody. They either "displace" for those fly months a junior right seater or a junior backseater, so why does it matter which one?

These are two instances where the MEC boned the few under the premise of protecting some nebulous seniority boogie man. Total BS in both cases, everybody had the opportunity to bid what those pilots had bid.

Don't even want to get started with BC, DW and the two former block reps of mine who bid the 777 without a pay rate. Thanks for taking care of yourselves while pontificating that you were trying to protect seniority.